Ugly Duckling or the Beautiful Swan

All the attendees in the ball room were left shocked when they heard Mo Li, suddenly it seemed that all their gazez were locked onto her. She stood up from her crouched stance on the ground and picked a tissue paper from the tray of a server standing near her and started wiping her face, hair and her body. Her spectacles were lying on the ground lying broken, the droplets of red liquid that had been splattered on her face and her constant rubbing of her face had left her face bereft of her usual heavy makeup, her braid has also somehow come loose. Her wet dress was now clinging to her body.

Who was this lady in front of them; she surely couldn't have been Mo Li !!!!! Whisperes filled the entire ballroom.This lady had beautiful long, golden hair like spun sugar, her eyes were huge and doe like and were of the color of the most refined caramel in the world. Her nose was straight and sharp and her lips were the exact reflection of every man's fantasy - pouty and rosy red. Her skin was pale and milky and appeared wonderfully soft. It was as if she was carved out from the purest jade known to mankind. When she rose to stand, her drenched dress clung to her body and this accentuated her beautifully toned body, she did have curves but in all the right places. The entire ballroom was so silent one could hear people breathing. Everyone appeared to be thunderstruck by her beauty. Men dropped their jaws and the eyes of the women had turned into daggers.

Before they could recover from this shock, Mo Li started speaking, "Miss Shen, firstly I am no sister of yours and secondly don't you think this habit of yours of making the same mistake repeatedly and that to against the same person needs to be analyzed a bit, because though I am exceptionally generous other people may not be the same. If you keep on losing your balance all the time and tripping people I think one day or other people are going to worry if there is something wrong with your body or mind or if you have some ulterior motive against me. May I advise you to consult a doctor immediately and not wait for such rumors to fly about you, because the news of the second miss of the Shen family, the rising star of our entertainment industry, being loose oh, I mean loosing her balance always may not go down so well with your family and your fans. Am i right?" Everyone started looking toward Shen Ruxi who stood frozen her spot. Still , there was utter silence in the ballroom which was finally broken when someone laughed loudly and said "oh she speaks and even stings, amazing". Who else could it be, Mo Li looked at the man laughing with disdain, obviously it was Young Master Tang Chen, another god in the eyes of these people. Tang Chen's laughter bought people back to the present. Shen Ruxi had also by now regained her sensen. She gritted her teeth and spoke," You...What right do you have to speak to me like this? I am Shen Ruxi, the only daughter of the Shen family, I am an A list celebrity, what bloody right does a nobody like you have to speak to me like that ha?" "Miss Shen first of all I did not speak to you badly at all, neither did I raise my voice nor did I say anything offensive, I just gave you some friendly advice and that to because you addressed me as sister before." said Mo Li. Shen ruxi was stunned, and so was everyone else. They could not find any fault with her statement. It was Shen ruxi who had dropped her drink on Mo Li and it was Shen ruxi who had addressed Mo Li as sister first and it was also Ruxi who had then in her anger called Mo Li a nobody. Mo li then continued to speak and said" Miss Shen may I also remind you that I am Mrs. Mu, are trying to say that the Mu's are nobodies?" A collective gasp could be heard in the ballroom. This was the first time Mo li has herself used the title of Mrs. Mu publicly and by integrating herself with the rest of the Mu's and posing this question in front of Shen Ruxi, she had definitely put Ruxi in a very difficult spot. A slight mistake in her answer would directly put Ruxi in the radar of the Mu's who were known to ruthlessly protect their family name. "You….." growled Ruxi but suddenly shut up when her attention was caught by something behind Mu Li.

The man who was observing this entire scene from the starting to now descended the stairs. His walk was slow, almost lazy. It was the walk of a king who was beyond these trivialities. But one could not mistake the sharp glint in his eyes or his downright grim expression or the dangerously cold aura surrounding him. He moved with the stealth of a cheetah towards Mo Li and looked at her with a grim face but a slight intrigue in his beautiful if cold eyes betrayed him. He turned hus piercing gaze towards Shen Ruxi and fradually towards every person present in the room scaring the freaking daylights out of them. It chilled them to their bones and made them sweat even in the perfectly temperature controlled ballroom. They had not expected this; why was the Ceo of the Mu Corporation attending this ball, he had never attended any social events. His presence was exclusive to his closest friends only. He was known to thoroughly despise such events and to avoid them religiously and most importantly in the three years of their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Mu were never seen standing so close to each other in public. Shen Ruxi immediately schooled her expression and stared at him with a pained expression , " Mr. Mu" but before she could say anything else she was cut off in the middle of the sentence when suddenly Mu Feng turned towards Mo Li and spoke loud enough for the entire room to here, " Shall we go home wife"?.